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My Experience as a Teacher, & A Message to ALL Teachers

So I guess this is kind of a recap of my teaching experience, like the first two months of me as a guitar teacher.  And what I've come to learn as a guitar teacher is that kids are really, really cool and they are way smarter than we give them credit for. And I say that because my first ever student is eight years old, which is already a little younger than the average guitar student I learned at age ten after like two years of piano or something, and he's had no experience with any other instrument.  So jumping straight into guitar at age eight with a full-sized guitar like this one, actually almost exactly like this one, it's it's no small feat. Let's put it that way. And so I figured I'd start teaching him pretty slowly, like, you know, just giving him, like, the basics of what all these things are. And considering that he's not starting with an acoustic, he's starting with an electric, which is already very different from my own education because I s...

Proud Teacher Story | My Student Is Super Smart

Okay, so this is a bit of like an unsolicited story time, but I thought that this story was so cool that I'd share it with all you funny people, because the funny person that showed me this is my eight year old student.  Now, having an eight year old student already by itself was a little weird for me because I learned guitar at age ten and I had already played piano for a couple of years before then, so the transition wasn't like the craziest thing in the world.  But this kid has no prior musical experience and just wanted to learn guitar. He's eight years old, so I was like, all right, that's pretty cool. And so recently he did the wildest thing that I've never really tried to experiment with this before, but he figured out that with these single coil pickups on a Strat, because he's got a Strat like mine, and he realized that if he just dials this tone knob, the bottom one down, he loses all the high end.  And with the amplifier that he has, which is my old B...

Daniel Naaden - Teaching Guitar in the Murrieta/Temecula Valley

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